OF the various manuals of Qualitative Analysis now in use, none is more deservedly popular than the work of Professor Galloway. Much of this success is doubtless due to the painstaking care with which the author has sought in successive editions to reduce the operations of Qualitative Analysis to a more methodical and systematic process. The present edition is in great part rewritten, and much new and original matter has been incorporated. More systematic methods for separating the alkaloids are given, together with many additional reactions for their individual discrimination. The processes for detecting the poisonous metals in presence of organic matters are also much improved. A description of Bunsen's neat and expeditious flame reactions is likewise a new feature in the book. The delicacy and certainty of these reactions ought undoubtedly to lead to their more general adoption in our laboratories; even if their application is found to be limited, the lesson in neatness and dexterity in working to be acquired in their performance would prove invaluable to the student. Manual of Qualitative Analysis. By Robert Galloway Fifth edition, xxi. and 415 pp. (London: John Churchill and Sons.)